SEVEN centrist MPs resign from British Labour party over anti-Semitism and Brexit lack of leadership under party leader Jeremy Corbyn

An interesting development considering the story posted here right below this one. Luciana Berger and the six other centrist lawmakers from the House of Commons – Chuka Umunna, Chris Leslie, Angela Smith, Mike Gapes, Gavin Shuker and Ann Coffey – have all quit the Labour party and will form an independent group.

Montreal Gazette(h/t Maurice) Seven British lawmakers quit the main opposition Labour Party on Monday over its approach to issues including anti-Semitism and Brexit — the biggest shake-up in years for one of Britain’s major political parties.

Luciana Berger, one of those who quit Monday, said Labour had become “institutionally anti-Semitic.” “I am leaving behind a culture of bullying, bigotry and intimidation,” she said at a news conference alongside six colleagues.

Labour leaders have admitted that Berger, who is Jewish, has been bullied by some members of her local party in northwest England. Labour has been riven by allegations that the party has become hostile to Jews under Corbyn, a longtime supporter of the Palestinians. Corbyn’s supporters accuse political opponents and right-wing media outlets of misrepresenting his views.

Many Labour members oppose Brexit — which is due in less than six weeks, on March 29 — and want the party to fight to hold a new referendum that could keep Britain in the 28-nation bloc. But Corbyn, who spent decades criticizing the EU before becoming a lukewarm convert to the “remain” cause in the 2016 referendum, is reluctant to do anything that could be seen as defying voters’ decision to leave.

The new group of seven stopped short of forming a new political party, but the seeds have been sown. Their statement said the Labour Party “now pursues policies that would weaken our national security; accepts the narratives of states hostile to our country; has failed to take a lead in addressing the challenge of Brexit and to provide a strong and coherent alternative to the Conservatives’ approach.”

Sorry, but these MPs are not, and never have been, “centrists”. They are dyed in the wool, rigid, authoritarian, unreconstructed, left-wing marxist socialists who all oppose Brexit, free speech and equality before the law. These are very dangerous people who believe that they are the elite and who believe that democracy’s only use is to keep the “deplorables” quiet. They will more than likely lose their seats at the next election since they all oppose the UK leaving the EU(SSR) but they all represent constituencies that voted heavily in favour of leaving that neo-dictatorship.

Their main complaint about the party that they left isn’t just that they distrust the leader and his cohort of radical communist infiltrators (with good cause), but that the leader (Jeremy Corbyn) had plainly indicated that he accepted the massive vote of the British people to quit the EU(SSR) as a democratically expressed decision that has to be acted upon, whereas they want to overturn that democratic decision in any way they can. They have even less respect for British voters than the communist leadership of the party they left – and that’s saying something!

U took the words out of my mouth. Centrist and Labour Party in the same sentence is an oxymoron. Most Americans do not understand there is no such thing as the Labour Party in the U.S. Dem’s are not that far from it though. But for an understanding for Americans Bernie Sanders would fit in like a glove on your hand.